Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-03-20
lDEOCULTURISTS.
IKE COMING MEETING OF THE NORTH
STATE TEACHERS.
Visiting Teachers Capture Of & Desperate
koonshiner-Cot ton-Factories-
A Disappearance.
special telegram to the DIspalch.l
RALEIGH, n. c., March ~, 1887

Special telegram 20 the Dispaich.l
RALEIGH, n. c., March ~, 1887.
You were advised THAI the North
Carolina Teachers Assembly had made
such arrangements as to permit teachers
from other States to share IN their meet
ings aud work. Mr.. Eugene Harrel,
the secretary, tells me to-day THAT teach
ers or friends of education in Virginia,
who wish TO attend the coming session
1T Morehead, should send their names,
with fee of 50, to him at Raleigh.
With this should be an application Tor
membership, which ought to be recon-
mended by some county superintendent
of public instruction. The Executive
Committee will consider all applications
81 once, and when the applicant Is
elected the secretary will at once for
ward the certificate of membership.
This certificate entities the holder to
every reduced rate on the railways,
steamers, at the hotel, and to all the
privileges Of the Assembly. There are
no extra charges for any purpose what
ever.
THE BAPTIST MINISTER'S CONFERENCE
will be held this year at Tarboro,
April 11-l4th. Rev. Il. Vandeventer
breaches the Introductory sermon. The
most eminent preachers OF the Baptist
denomination in the State will discuss
such subjects as "NOrth Carolina
and the Baptists," "Denominational
Strength" 1.-THE Sunday-School Idea, !"
Education and the Ministry, " The
Labor Question and the Churches, "
"The Proper Attitude of the Churches
towards the Temperance Movement.
NEWS NOTES.
It is reported here that Mr.. Julian s.
Carr, of Durham, will build tobacco
prize houses and a mandatory in
Raleigh.
Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Boston,
will shortly deliver lecture here in
the interest of the scheme to establish
cotton factory in this city.
Governor Scales has accepted the in
yitation to deliver the annual address
at Wilson Collegiate Institute next June.
President Cleveland is to be specially
invited to Moorehead City the coming
summer.
Active steps have been taken and
375. 100 subscribed for the erection OF a
cotton-factory at Mooresyille. Iredell
county.
A disease greatly IKE smallpox has
broken out In Burke county, and has
caused several deaths. 1t cannot be
smallpox, and is yet singularly like it.
The matter will be officially inyesti-
gated.
HE WAS NOT DROWNED.
Some years ago George W. Dixon,
captain of the schooner Rapidan, was
reported by his crew to have been lost
while on trip from Hyde county, \.
c., to Philadelphia. He had family
troubles, and was believed to have COM
mitted suicide by drowning. In the
past few dnys it has been discovered
that Dixon did not commit suicide at
all, but made his way at night, un-
known to the crew, in small boat from
the schooner to land and then went to
New Jersey, where he has since lived
in quiet way.
GOING TO WASHINGTON.
1t is now pretty definitely learned
that the following companies will repre-
sent North Carolina in the national
drill: The Governors Guard, Colds
boro' Rifles, Edgecombe Guards, Will
mington Light Infantry, Sampson
Light Infantry, Maxton Rifles, Monroe
Light Infantry, Hornets Nest Rifle
men, and Reidsvi!le Light Infantry.
That is nine companies. No doubt
there will be another. They will go as
a regiment, meeting at Greensboro I'M
der command of Colonel w. G. Jones,
Of the Second regiment. The band Of
that regiment will accompany them.
NoToRIOUs MooNsHINER.
The revenue people have made some
notable captures of moonshiners " in
Orange and Durham counties in the
past few days. ID. H. Holmes, an ex-
tensive operator, is one of these. Scott
Harden 0iias " Captain jerks. was cap
tucd in Durham county. He is des-
perate man, and is known in all that
section as the liking of the Moon
sinners" The officers have been after
him forsome time. Both ne and Holmes
are in Hillsboro' Jail.
The star newspaper, of Wilmington,
isthefrstt to come under the Argus eve of
the law under an act passed by the late
Legislature in regard to publishing lot
teries. At Cumberland County Supe-
rior Court yesterday the star was in
dicted 10y the grand jury for advertising
lotteries contrary to the new act. The
publisher of n newspaper is indicted in
every county where his paper circu.
lates, if it contains such advertisement
The act is a copy of the New York
statute, and its constitutionality and
comprehensiveness have been well set
tied by several decisions in that State
PoOR-HoUsE BURNED.
The poor-house of Wilson county,
about a mile from Wilson, was destroy
cd by fire yesterday. 1t was insured in
the German-American Insurance Com
eany, of New York, for 81 800.
Long & Co., OF Nineland, Columbus
county, dealers in general merchandise,
made an assignment to j. Il. Taylor
to-day.
The people of Washington, Beaufort
county, are greatly excited over the dis
appearance of George Sparrow and
Mrs. Swindell. 4 week ago, as attor-
ney and client, they went to Newberne
to receive some money due Mrs. Swim
dell. About S400 is the amount said to
have been received. From Newberne
they went to Kinston, and registered at
hotel as man and wife. Sparrow is of
n good family-one of the best in Beau
fort courtyard has a most estimable
wife.
+. f. Burrows, president of the First
National Bank at Wilmington, was
stricken with paralysis while in his Of
flee yesterday. his condition is better
to-day.
fOund Guilty.
Especial telegram to the Dispatch.l
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